The newest version of Plexamp is awesome and thank you for it!!! I do have a problem though. I use Plexamp on my Windows 10 and macOS. Both platforms have no ability to minimize or exit the program with normal window controls. I think that’s ridiculous to not follow know UI standards. Please update it to include standard window/app minimize/maximize/restore/close controls and an ability to fully close the app.
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Do you mean items on the window itself, or the taskbar? The window itself by design has no chrome (meaning window buttons) on it.
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I get that it’s by design but I would like to way to quit the app and also a way to minimize it.
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Can’t you quit the app by right clicking on taskbar and selecting Close?
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Hey @happyshow. Within macOS you can just use Cmd-M and within Win10 you can click on the Plexamp dock icon to minimize. If Plexamp is in focus you can use Cmd-Q or Alt-F4. I hope that helps!
hey @happyshow, just as elan and alexanderjunk said, you can see those examples in this tutorial…
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Thanks. I have read that tutorial and even though there is functionality there to do what I want, it isn’t ideal.
Nice to see that the All Music tab has been added, but it’s missing an alpha scroll to minimize a crap load of swiping to get to items far into the list.
While I can understand the asthetic choice of not showing standard window controls all the time, to ommit them entirely is questionable at the very least. I would ask you to think long and hard on this design choice. A simple hover to show mechanism would keep the sleek asthetic AND not make your users have to relearn thousands of hours of experience with windows/macOS.
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Thank you for at least giving the option to quit the program from the menu bar in macOS. Now all that’s left is the ability to quit the program from Windows without having to right click on the task bar.
Plexamp is a really nice program by the way. Keep up the great work!!!
I agree that we need a way to skip to a certain letter in all music view. I have 3,200 artists. It takes a long time to swipe to Yellow Jackets.
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Windows 10?
Did you grab the window and dragged it to the top border of the screen, about in the middle?
That’s a Windows feature. You undo that either by:
- at the same spot of the screen (top, middle) clicking and dragging downwards a bit
- right-click at the top area and select ‘Restore’
- press Alt+Space and select ‘Restore’
I would echo the OP that it should be easier to minimize/close the app. Yes I know of three ways to do it but interacting with the application window is the simplest.
I would also prefer to still have the ability to minimize to an icon in the notification area (on Windows) without staying on the taskbar. I believe this was in the previous version.
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I would also prefer to still have the ability to minimize to an icon in the notification area (on Windows) without staying on the taskbar. I believe this was in the previous version.
Second! Please bring it back.
I would like to see these controls as well. I appreciate the really nice and clean design, but abandoning basic window controls just isn’t in line with expactations. And there are ways to incorporate them without surrounding the player with a native window border.
Just add a simple title bar to the layout, add minimize, maximize, and close buttons, and make the whole thing optional, so those who care more about the design than expected controls can disable it. It’s simple, but improves usability.
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